Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire I am starting to feel old

Yep that's so true, anti-hunting, anti meat eating Bambi huggers for teachers, lead is poison & gun's are bad, being a democrat is the way.
We're nothing but old farts who didn't know any better.

I'm coming up on 74. In 10 days I'll be caribou hunting up in the mountains N. of Fairbanks.. Looks like rain.

It isn't that I can't hunt in the rain. It's the gun care afterward/during.

Wishing me for some of them there black guns with shiny-ass actions and barrels.

Best I can do for the weather is POS-wood stocked 725, blued receiver, stainless barrel.

Thinking strongly of going old school. Really old school! I mean, if it was good enough for them back in the day.....

I know where there's a nice dry cave overlooking a 400 yard slope below, ala caveman style. Not far from Trump rock.



Probably be foggy tho, with my luck.



I've dinged them all up.

the main thing is to get out there and use the gear you like. no point having it sitting in the closet, garage or shed.

can always buy a lion tag over the counter and get out in the back country. or take a rifle along wood cutting for a possible coyote.

these will be the good old days someday, make the most of them.

Sycamore

I’m 74 and have two grown sons, ages 50 and 47. When they were in high school and college in Michigan they both hunted deer with me and were both successful. When they graduated from college they both moved to Chicago for work and got married and started families. I now have 3 grandsons ages 14,13 and 10. The two older grandsons are both tall athletic basketball players which conflicts with deer season. My granddaughter is 17 and used to shoot archery with me when she was a pre-teen. Like her brothers she became a star basketball and volleyball player and plays on an Elite volleyball squad that plays year around all over the country. My last hope is my 10 year old grandson. He is a star soccer player but has expressed an interest in shooting and hunting. I gave him (via his dad) a Match Air Rifle, a kid’s.22 single shot and a Ruger Model 1 in .223. This week he and I were watching the Olympics and I told him I could train him to be an Olympic calibre rifle shooter. I have an Anschutz 1407 and an Anschutz 1413 plus a virtually unlimited supply of Match ammo courtesy of shooting many years for the All Army Reserve Rifle Team. I was the Honor Graduate of the 1975 All Army Rifle Instructors and Coaches Clinic and have trained and coached a number of world class shooters. I became a Distinguished Rifleman over 35 years ago and have placed in a few matches at Camp Perry back in the day.

I will be 60 next month and my whole life I have had problems conversing on an intelligent level with people about guns.... very few have intimate knowledge. I don't see this as a new phenomenon

You prolly don’t know what you think you know, hence the struggle.

I would be happy to compare bona fides with you.